Errors and near misses in digestive endoscopy units

Background Not much is known about errors and near misses in digestive endoscopy. Aims To verify whether an incident report, with certain facilitating features, gives useful information about unintended events, only excluding errors in medical diagnosis. Method Nine endoscopy units took part in this cross sectional, prospective, multicentre study which lasted for two weeks. Members of the staff were required to report any unintended, potentially...